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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Literature

• Becket - Book and Movie - AwkwardSaw
• City of Glass by Douglas Coupland
• Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland
• DC Comics, literature? yes! - jb
• Necroscope {?} - Palpz
• The Pillow Book - Teiresias
• Songs of Innocence and Experience - sludgeeel
• The Book of Who Cares - gleeme
• From the Earth to the Moon - AlphaFoX
• The Stone Diaries - anthropod
• What becomes of the broken hearted? - Demeter
• Fantastic Voyage (both book and film) - Saige
• Arms and the man - Gorgonzola (both the poem and the play)
• America (the book by Jean Baudrillard) - Starke
• Pebble in the Sky
• Jeremiah Cornelius (fb gz). Omnibus volumes (such as The Cornelius Chronicles) firmlinked to Jeremiah Cornelius and locked.
• The Lorax

Writers/Authors/Poets (playwrights included)

• Elizabeth Wurtzel - Devon Hart
• Terri Windling claimed by Lucy-S
• Thomas Canty claimed by Lucy-S
• Robert Service - fab
• Gustave Flaubert - anthropod
• Janice Raymond - Saige
• Larry Flynt - Devon Hart
• Boris Vian - Apatrix
• Nikos Kazantzakis - fuzzy and blue
• Robert Heinlein needs consolidation and a good bio
• Michael Crichton needs biography

Movies, Radio and TV

• Here's Lucy - wp
• A Kind of Loving
• Miss Saigon the stage musical - BlueDragon
• La Petite Mort - wertperch
• Dark Skies - call
• Singles (the comedy) - (darsi)
• BMX Bandits - call
• An Officer and a Gentleman - GN
• King of Comedy (the movie) - Catchpole
• Blackenstein -ap
• Celebrity (Woody Allen film) -ap
• thirtysomething - WolfDaddy
• Friends needs a good historical and background treatment
• Braindead horror flick - Teiresias
• James Bond filmography and books - (darsi)
Major League - atesh
• Lucas Film - Devon_Hart
• From the Earth to the Moon - ap
• Antiques Roadshow - RainDropUp
• Focus the film and the book! - neil
• High Fidelity (collation/cleaning up needed)
• Frugal Gourmet - icicle
• Dick Tracy - mr100percent wp will cover the radio series
• Eldorado - failed UK soap opera - Teiresias
• Desert Island Discs - Teiresias
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - Teiresias
• Centre Force (London based pirate radio) - Apatrix
• Strange Brew found anthropod
• Cinematograph - history and early technology - Apatrix
• Fantastic Voyage (both book and film) - Saige
• Area 88 - TBBK
• My Cousin Vinnie - Palpz claimed by Posmella 20/07/02
• Emmys - Palpz
• Oliver! - the musical
• Benny and Joon found by fuzzy and blue
• Almost Famous - gleeme
• Heaven Can Wait - caknuck
• Bob Monkhouse - jmn32, claimed by shimmer 07.10.02
• James and the Giant Peach, thefilm - fuzzy and blueClaimed by Posmella, 12/10/02
• The Today Programme, on BBC Radio 4 - ascorbic
• Destination Moon - etoile
• Giant - maus
• Basket Case, the movie fb Gz
• Dial 'M' For Murder
• The Masked Avenger - radio show
• CBS
• Miami Vice

Actors, directors, personnel

• Actors from CrackerJack that need help Michael Aspel, Eamonn Andrews, and Ronnie Corbett - thanks immensely to Gritchka - jay
• Dennis Weaver
• Barry Nelson - pp
• Anthony Quinn - (darsi)
• Martin Sheen - Palpz
• Steven Spielberg - Palpz
• John Rhys-Davies - jm
• Diane Keaton - wp
• Cary Grant - fb exceptinsects
• Maria de Medeiros - ascorbic
• Scott Thompson - wertperch
• Claudia Christian - WolfDaddy
• Owen Wilson - blandoon
• Jennifer Connelly -(darsi)
• Jess Harnell -ap
• Will Vinton (animator) -ap
• Ralph Fiennes actor - (darsi)
• Alan Arkin actor - (darsi)
• John Woo claimed by elem 125 as of 1 Jan 2003
• Blake Edwards -maus
• Ray Milland -maus
• Joan Cusack - CTW
• Martin Scorsese - Devon_Hart
• Louis Jordan (the actor) - anthropod
• David Frost -ap
• Judith Anderson brit. actor - WolfDaddy
• Timothy Leary - irexe
• Terry Nation - CtW
• Mark Thomas stand-up comic
• David Bellamy TV botanist
• Ridley Scott - Teiresias
• Ashley Judd, actress - panamaus
• Luc Besson, director - CTW
• David Cross - comedian, - Teiresias
• Michael Parkinson - great grandaddy of TV talkshow hosts - Teiresias
• Sue Lawley - Teiresias
• Clare Grogan - Teiresias
• The Wachowski Brothers - irexe
• Dexter Fletcher - wertperch
• Casper Van Dien - Devon Hart
• Drew Carey - atesh
• Jules Asner - simonc
• Ian Holm - maus
• Ava Gardner - maus
• Tony Blackburn - shimmer
• Derek Jarman, queer filmmaker - Oolong
• Peter Greenaway, director -fuzzy and blue
• Wallace Shawn - etoile
• Sarah Bernhardt - caknuck
• Julie Christie - caknuck
• Sabrina Lloyd - caknuck
• Felicity Huffman - caknuck
• Josh Charles - caknuck
• Robert Guillaume - caknuck
• Joshua Malina - caknuck
• Aaron Sorkin - caknuck
• Jamie Lee Curtis - jmn32
• Gay Byrne - gleeme
• Cary Grant
• Arsenio Hall, former talk show host (found by fuzzy and blue, unclaimed)
• James Cagney
• Dick Clark
• Carl Foreman
• Mike Myers
• Rick Moranis
• Hugh Jackman

Music and musicians

• Heather Alexander - Musician - jay
• Natalie Imbruglia - Thanks to Teiresias - jay
• Loretta Lynn - thanks to jaubertmoniker
• Sascha Konietzko - novasoy
• jungle (the genre) has a host of writeups and is looking for a nice, comprehensive one. -ap
• Klaus Nomi has a very nice E1 job but could do with a bit more -ap
• Chicago - GFG (as in the band)
• Bryan Adams - (darsi)
• Holly Near - etoile
• Happy Rhodes - such a voice and just one paragraph of E1 for it, tsk -ap
• bentley rhythm ace - suggested by Great Neb
• snap (UK band, needs bio and discography) - suggested by Great Neb
• Zia McCabe, of Dandy Warhols fame - wertperch
• photek - Great Neb
• Don Was - GFG
• Poly Styrene - novasoy
• Lawrence Welk - DH
• Quarrymen
• Roger Waters - suggested by Devon_Hart
• Morris Day - jm
• Kronos Quartet - anthropod
• Dokken - jm
• Adam Beyer - enth
• Nazareth - WolfDaddy
• Jack DeJohnette - CtW
• David Grisman and The David Grisman Quintet
• Eva Cassidy- Great Neb
• Killing Joke - irexe
• Shaun Ryder - (darsi)
• Herbert Grönemeyer - (darsi)
• Herbie Hancock - pp -claimed by GFG
• Bow Wow Wow - simonc
• Burt Bacharach - ssd
• Elvis Costello - irexe
• Bobby Gillespie - (darsi)
• Huey Lewis and the News -ap
• Les Paul Studio -ap
• Ice T - Footprints
• Danzig could use more info... (darsi)
• Gary Burton the vibraphonist - Footprints
• Lee Greenwood - GangstaFeelsGood
• Charlie Hunter guitarist - GangstaFeelsGood
• Ricky Martin - (darsi)
• Suicide the band
• Mary J. Blige - Discography and other artist information
• Bill Leeb - irexe
• Papas Fritas
• afrika Bambaataa
• Grandmaster Flash
• Quincy Jones - maus
• a cappella - ssd
• Chuck D - Great Neb again
• Lemonheads and Evan Dando, it's frontman - Teiresias
• The Steve Miller Band history, formation/s, discography... - NL
• Art Garfunkel -pp
• Steve Vai - Footprints
• Chick Corea - Footprints
• Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder album - gleeme
• Robbie Williams - Great Neb
• Echo and The Bunnymen - Teiresias
• Jimmy Swaggart - Devon Hart
• Cheap Trick - Palpz
• Wendy Carlos - elflad
• Legendary Pink Dots - Apatrix, claimed by slobertje 25/05/02
• Acid Bath - irexe
• Brian Ritchie ex-Violent Femmes - irexe
• Garbage the band - Carthag
• Dust Brothers needs discography and background - jm
• Al Jolson - wp
Leonard Cohen - NL
• Steven Tyler - shimmer
• Carpenters - irexe, claimed by simonc 21/06/02
• Public Enemy - irexe
• Flea - Chilli Peppers bassist, - Footprints
• Less than Jake (consolidate/expand) - SharQ
• Martika - Saige
• Tiffany - Saige
• Jimmy Nail - Mortice
• NWA - irexe
• The Bee Gees - maus
• Diana Ross - pp
• Nick Drake - maus
• Marx Brothers - wp
• T-Rex - thyme
• The Tragically Hip - anthropod
• piccolo, the instrument - fuzzy and blue claimed 01/10/02 by jpfed
• David Holmes - jmn32
• William Orbit - jmn32
• baritone
• harp
• America (the band) - Starke
• Diana Krall - maus
• Usher (the singer) - caknuck Claimed 11/14/02 by Great Neb
• Love and Rockets - atesh
• Tito Puente

Sport

• shotokan is a nodeshell
• kendo needs consolidation and details - atesh
• Merv Albert nodeshell - jm
• English Premier League
• Phil Tufnell "He's fat and he's lazy" and needs a bio - Teiresias
• Boxing - TBBK/PP
• Jacques Rogge -IOC president - Teiresias
• Juan Antonio Samaranch former IOC president - Teiresias
• Kung Fu - TheChronicler
• Kenneth Wolstenholme -ap
• Denver Broncos -pp
• Fatima Whitbread - Teiresias
• Graham Taylor ex-England football manager - Teiresias
• Iain Dowie - Teiresias
• Lawn bowls - simonc
• Crown Green Bowls - BlueDragon
• Short Mat Bowls - BlueDragon
• Olympic Games - Footprints
• Maurice Richard, NHL legend - caknuck

Games and Toys

• Black Panther (video game) - gleeme - claimed on 2002.05.03 by TheBooBooKitty
• curses - WWWW (whoever takes this, see if something can be done about the author, Graham Nelson - wp)
• Heart of Darkness - Posmella
• three card monte

Fine Arts

• play as in theater/theatre and drama, perhaps some societal and cultural as well as artistic history - Ikura

Other Arts & Entertainment

• Dear Abby {? with TBBK 19 March 2002} has song lyrics but nothing on, you know, Dear Abby. -junkpile
• Steve Wright - UK deejay person - wertperch
• Entertainment Weekly - WolfDaddy
• Wimpy - the cartoon character - Teiresias
• American idioms (more of a topic than an actual rescue) - ssd
• Reduced Shakespeare Company - Mortice
• Super Dave Osborne - AwkwardSaw
• panorama as in painting and photography - Professor Pi
• lambada -ap
• minaret history & origins, spiritual significance, famous and infamous examples - simonc claimed by sludgeeel June 1 2002
• Dave Sim cartoonist, - SharQ (request forwarded to e2comix)
• Oberammergau, the passion play - Kidas
• Bossa Nova

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Life Sciences, including Biology and Medicine

• craniotomy - suggested by Devon_Hart
• carer is a nodeshell - wertperch
• Gulf War Syndrome {? 19th March 2002} TheChronicler
• Novo Nordisk - ariels
• orthodontist
• dental hygienist
• orgasm claimed by BlueDragon April 4 2002
• Pediatrician/Paediatrician - Teiresias
• Electrolyte - Kidas
• human growth hormone - rdude
• stem - rdude
• liverwort - rdude
• Madness as a generic kinda thing, - anthropod
• Clive Sinclair, bio and details of his ideas - Ponder
• Sociology - gleeme
• Anthropophobia

Human anatomy and bits of the body

(taken care of for now)

Critters

• rabbit
• cockatoo - jaubertmoniker
• monkey needs consolidation and expansion - GN
• Cassowary
• Duck
• Oriole
• California Quail
• Scarlet Macaw
• Turkey
• gibbon
• marsupial - sloebertje
• bark beetle
• Mouse - our non-electronical rodent could need some more flesh

Computer Hardware

• AWE32 jay
• Torch - the old Z80-based computer (discovered by ariels)
• Aptiva
• Dandelion - made by Xerox
• MPLA - Multi-Point Link Aggregation

Computer Software

• Windows CE 2.0 - There is a Windows CE node, but this one may be good for Windows CE 2.0 specific stuff.
• Downloader for X - Brief, could use some technical explainations, and the current status of the project - jay
• Microsoft RAS - needs more stuffing before we bake it - jay
• Opera - this node needs to be defrag'ed. -ap
• Microsoft Outlook - jaubertmoniker (claimed by JayBonci)
• Microsoft - less argument, more fact, - rdude
• C++ stuff: export -submitted by ssd.
• Pink -the alleged post-MacOS OS - Teiresias
• Shredder, chess package - Teiresias
• Meridian 59 (game) -ap
• Microsoft Word - some history, some facts. Please. (TBBK)
• PowerAnimator
• atom in the Lisp, QuickTime sense needs attention
• Microsoft Access - some history, technical information
• Filemaker - some history, technical information
• kernel panic needs consolidation and some more detail! - by Devon_Hart
• ipfw - wertperch
• ReiserFS - ascorbic claimed by nyte 23/05/02
• Cubase - irexe
• The Arachne web browser - TBBK
• Microsoft Excel - pp
• Mozilla could use a tidy-up and a good history - Mortice
• HFS - SharQ
• loom - SharQ

Computing - Games and toys

The videogames usergroup keeps an extensive list of games in need of rescuing at the homenode of their shared account, Insert Coin.

• KROZ the PC game - Saige
• pointer claimed by Toxick 30th March 2002

Computing - other

• Go2Net - Seattle based company, now owned by infospace, could use more information.
• uBid - The online company.
• Western Digital - Hard drive manufacturer - jay
• Yahoo Pager - Slim - jay
• lexical binding -gz
• Eterm
• XEvil
• Real Audio - needs technical background
• WebCrawler the search engine - wertperch
• Branch Prediction - call
• ipfw - ascorbic
• ProcessTree Network - rdude
• MUCK - Devon_Hart
• whetstone benchmark - call
• copyleft - an irexe contribution
• iframe - ssd
• Alan Cox, Linux coder/hacker
• MMA (the MIDI Manufacturers Association)
• gateway - Saige
• Prodigy - the ISP
• Jamie Zawinski, Mozilla hacker. Bio, anyone?
• whacking - wireless hacking (?) anyone - Great Neb
• ENUM telephone-to-IP proposal - simonc
• e164.arpa the domain to be used with ENUM - ascorbic
• posix - ssd
• Scott McNealy founder of Sun, - irexe
• CORBA - Saige
• Cowbotneal (a worthwhile general FAQ is needed, CowbotNeal: Commands Primer notwithstanding) - gleeme
• message board
• webzine
• SlashNET

Mathematics

• Stefan Banach - compliments of ariels
• abstract algebra - ariels, claimed by fuzzy and blue on 2001.11.28 (jb notes: There is a good writeup there, but a more in-depth treatment could be done).
• algebraic topology - ariels
• Martin Gardner - Saige
• applied mathematics - Codepie

Physics

• minimal surface - ariels
• shell and subshell - suggestions by rdude
• osmosis - pp
• Hermann von Helmholtz - Teiresias
• combustion - WolfDaddy
• Hyperspace, book by Michio Kaku - enth

Other Science & Technology

• telephone - pp: history, operation, etc.
• Cartographer
• cosmology - Devon_Hart
• Turbo - thanks to TheBooBooKitty via GangstaFeelsGood
• Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction - wertperch
• television needs a history of the technology - thanks to heyoka
• life (a scientific view of cellular automata), suggested by Cletus the Foetus
• washing powder - ariels
• detergent - ariels
• insecticide - blandoon
• synchromesh has a cut and paste job that needs to be replaced - wp
• windmill -the modern kind still needs noding
• scrap metal -ap
• Rioddel Car -ap
• fly-by -ap
• white hole - Devon_Hart
• Stereo - Do a websearch for "Alan Blumlein" -pp
• CHAP
• Honda Insight hybrid vehicle - enth
• Sputnik - Palpz
• D1 D2 and Digital8 - claimed by SharQ 3rd April 2002
• lubricant - jm
• fat - areih
• methane - posmella
• petrol - posmella
• matter compiler - ssd
• Volcanology - fuzzy and blue
• Rare Earth - simonc
• silver

NATIONS

Economics and Trade

• Balanced budget - Important topic in American politics with nothing yet.
• Certified Public Accountant
• Whip Inflation Now - Ford-era US fiscal policy - WolfDaddy
• World Bank - dg
• World Trade Organization - dg
• Any number of British banks, as ascorbic has found out
• IPO - wertperch
• guns and butter - WolfDaddy
• welfare - Devon_Hart

Geography, Travel and Locations

• Medfield, Massachusetts - Obscure, but needed
• Black Forest
• Iberia - (darsi)
• Armagh - nodeshell! -gz
• Latvia - wertperch
• Death Valley - suggested by Atesh
• Rajasthan - RubenAzarja
• Hollywood - Palpz
• Damascus - C-Dawg
• Chicago needs some sorting out - Mortice
• Brixton in London - Great Neb
• Dortmund - Mortice
• Lake Champlain - desperately needs help - Gz
• Zandvoort -ap
• Port Saint Lucie, Florida -ap
• Key Largo -ap
• erg -ap
• Marseilles has nothing but a webster1913 entry - narzos
• Bengal - anthropod
• Newcastle upon Tyne - wp
• Vail, the ski resort in Colorado - Saige
• Sicily - Saige
• Eastern Parkway fb Gz. The one in Brooklyn, New York.
• Fairfax, Virginia, suburb of Washington DC - etoile
• Nottinghamshire - shimmer
• Asia Minor
• Halifax - Saige
• Nova Scotia - Saige
• Ontario - Palpz
• New Territories - Palpz
• Yukon - Palpz
• Tower Bridge - wp
• Hampshire - Teiresias
• Wimbledon Common - Frankie
• Hyde Park, London - Frankie
• Styal, suburb of Manchester - shimmer
• Cheetam, suburb of Manchester
• Whalley's Range, suburb of Manchester
• Montreal
• Killeshandra - Ikura
• South Pole
• Las Vegas, Nevada - Palpz
• Montauk, New York on Long Island - simonc
• Greece
• Kazbek
• Iran
• Yemen
• Saudi Arabia
• Asia - etoile

History

• Peter Wright - best known as the author of Spycatcher.
• Geheimschreiber
• (European) Enlightenment
• feudal - wertperch
• Stonehenge needs some tidying up - DH -claimed by sloebertje
• Minoan - Kidas, claimed by Apatrix
• Long Meg stone circle - wertperch
• Leveller - CtW
• Shiro Ishii - Teiresias
• Maya
• Velite claimed by SharQ March 24 2002
• Nebuchadnezzar - Footprints -claimed by dann
• Jan Smuts -ap
• Yom Kippur War - Saige (claimed on 2002.05.04 by elem_125)
• Six-Day War - Oolong -claimed by Transitional Man (08/12/02)
• Panama-Pacific International Exposition - maus
• Ptolemy - Frankie
• Suleiman I (1494-1566), Ottoman Sultan - atesh
• Abraham Lincoln needs a thorough biography

Politics and Government

• John Paul II - Nice writeup, but maybe more information about his past? - jay
• Deng Xiaoping - f.b. Gz
• Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator, f.b. Gz
• Jim Wright - Former Speaker of the House. Felled by Newt Gingrich.
• Environmental Protection Agency
• National Health Systems - Great Neb
• British Prime Ministers is a list of PMs (unsurprisingly), many of whom need rescuing.
• Republican and Republican Party -ap
• Spiro Agnew -ap
• John Major - Mortice
• UNITA - União Nacional Para A Independencia Total De Angola - Angolan resistance (?) . Needs lots of info and history.
• White Rose claimed by Apatrix 28th March 2002
• Ehud Barak - arieh
• John Turner erstwhile Canadian Prime Minster
• Paul Martin Canadian politician
• Ted Kennedy (enth)
• United Nations - Palpz
• Nelson Mandela - Mortice claimed by Posmella 15 June 2002
• Socialist Workers Party - wp
• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - caknuck
• MPLA, the Movimento Popular da Libertação de Angola - irexe
• Diet, the Japanese Parliament - Nero
• Act of Parliament - wertperch
• NATO - claimed by Nero, 10/31/02
• George Papadopoulos
• José María Aznar - Spanish prime minister - CatherineB

Culture and general media

• burqa - suggested by DrSeudo
• knight - atesh
• YMCA is more than just a song - exceptinsects
• hogmanay - new years day where children walk from door to door. Needs info, history, etc.
• women's suffrage claimed by apatrix
• Boxing Day - needs history, explanation etc.
• baby-boomer
• Gund (the kid's fluffy toy) - needs facts!
• Houses of Parliament (House of Lords and Commons are done, we need architechture and history) claimed by Teiresias 25th March 2002
• edict and enmadict, Japanese dictionaries - rdude

Military

• Tactics
• rifle
• joust - tournament or single battle of war (?)
• kama
• Hattori Hanzo - founder of one of the famous ninja clans - Teiresias
• Special Air Service - British Army elite force, - wertperch
• Special Boat Squadron - British Marines elite force, - wertperch
• Stonewall Jackson - Great Neb

Law

• Harassment -(found and claimed by rdude on 2001.12.18)
• bar - DrSeudo

MISCELLANEOUS OTHER AND UNCLASSIFIED

Religion, esotericism etc.

• communion - suggested by mr100percent
• The Celestine Prophecy - DH
• dharma - dg
• monk - perhaps a history! (sloebertje)
• shamanism - wertperch -claimed by sloebertje
• Angel -ap
• Mennonite Church - gleeme
• Presbyterian Church - atesh
• Everything on saints (all) - sludgeel
• 2 Maccabees

Mythology and Legend

• arondight, Lancelot's sword - Great Neb
• Eris - shimmer
• Mars the war god

Food and Drink (booze included)

• Frothé - Devon_Hart
• main course - atesh
• L'chaim (the Jewish toast) - suggested by The Oolong Man
• preservative - ssd
• Chuckles the confection - WWWWolf
• nabe - Japanese soup/stew, - Teiresias
• Banks Mild - Teiresias
• Satsuma, the fruit - shimmer

Words and Phrases

• bowdlerize - unearthed by BlueDragon
• Amharic
• killing joke

People and general biography

• Boy Scout something more about the movement, perhaps - claimed by TheChronicler March 2002
• Thomas Chippendale the furniture maker, needs biography - wertperch
• Kwanzaa the winter festival
• Steve Ballmer needs a biography - NL
• Joe Girardi - ?
• Helvetius / Claude Adrien Helvetius
• Philippe Starck - the architect - from Footprints
• Rudolf Hess - part of Hitler's war machinery. Needs some kind of bio.
• Jack Greenberg - wertperch
• James Fenimore Cooper - Gritchka
• Susan Powter
• Frank James
• Paul Auster - wedgeantilles
• John Mills Bristish actor - wp
• Michael Tieman
• Robert Forster - WolfDaddy
• Henry Ford of Ford Motors fame - Palpz
• Sol Yurick - Saige
• Nora Ephron - anthropod
• Akbar Emperor of the Sind in India - RubenAzarja
• Paul Reed Smith owner of pRS Guitars, - irexe
• Pablo Escobar - maus
• Colonel Parker - caknuck
• Leslie Lamport - shimmer
• David Shaylor - shimmer
• Ginger Mackenzie - shimmer
• Edsger W. Dijkstra needs a good bio and a cleanup - irexe
• Ian Hacking - Oolong
• Nancy Cartwright - Oolong
• Ronnie Kray, London villain - dreamwalker
• Reggie Kray - dreamwalker
• Amanda Detmer - caknuck
• Werner Heisenberg - Oolong
• Jon-benet Ramsey - irexe
• Jacques Cartier - caknuck
• Henry Morgentaler
• David Bailey
• Don King the boxing promoter

Press and media

• New York Free Press The node is very light on information. Takers? - jay
• Diane Sawyer - Starke7764
• The New York Times Bestseller List - Toxick
• Panorama, the BBC programme - Teiresias
• Rolling Stone - WolfDaddy
• Jan Wenner (founder of Rolling Stone magazine) - WolfDaddy
• Scott Dikkers of The Onion -ap
• Salon, the online magazine - icicle

Education

• Hampshire College - Saige
• Bates College - This needs a factual writeup - jb
• London School of Economics - anthropod
• SAT - wp
• Loyola University - Lucy-S
• MBA - wertperch
• Daniel Webster College - blandoon
• RSI - rdude
• Vanderbilt University - caknuck
• Ohio State University - caknuck
• Louisiana State University - caknuck
• Wake Forest University - caknuck

Companies and products

• Black & Decker could use some retooling - CG
• Ray-Ban needs it - thanks to (darsi)
• Edison Illumination Company unique and cool find - thanks to (darsi)
• Selfridges - Professor Pi
• Buick
• Jumper cables
the tennis courts of the French Open -pp
• spring, autumn (fall) and winter - Great Neb
• speakeasy - kil